Here are some things to be seen around my house this week. This is my Simply Riveting Shawl, almost all done! It no longer looks like a bizarre ball. Hurray! I am finishing up an epic sewing project for the house, curtains for four windows that are each about 5 x7 feet in the […]
It’s been a rainy past few days, but today it was drier. I took advantage of all the wet soil and lack of rain to pull up some nasty weeds in the yard and stack the boards from the deck we are ripping out. When I lifted up a board I found this guy: I […]
We’ve had some very cold mornings lately, dark with early morning light reflecting off the frosts coating everything. I crept outside in my pjs and a hat to take photos in the yard before the sparkles melted or were rained away. I had company.
Plein air or outdoor painting and sketching season is slowly trickling away. Rain and cold make it difficult to sit outside for long periods at a time and to continue sketching things not in the house requires some creativity such as using the inside of your car as shelter and parking it in interesting places, […]
It is raining today. Grey and drizzly, the clouds press down on the house like damp wash cloths. It reminds me of Seattle, windows freckled by rain and soggy, heavy air. The rain heralds the end of our beautiful Indian summer, knocking golden leaves to the ground in fits of pique. Winter never could handle […]
Every year for my brother’s birthday and at Christmas I make him something ridiculous. He loves deep sea creatures, video games and all sorts of funny Internet stuff. As a result, I am usually giggling as I make him his present. Recently his presents have included a knitted angler fish and knitted squid as well […]
You can tell because apples have suddenly become cheaper than peaches! Oh and the leaves are turning! And berries are ripening. And it is really, really cold in the morning, but I’m not going to put up a picture of me huddled under a blanket in my fuzzy blue blanket with a mug of hot […]
I washed the solid fabric for my quilt! They will look good with the prints, don’t you think? I turned this: Into this: I trimmed the viburnum next the house so it would stop trying to crawl its way through our bedroom window and then looked at the pile of branches on the ground and […]
Recently I discovered a tumblr page called Rustic.Meets.Vintage. It is a great website full of beautiful inspiration (hence the post). It makes me want to go antiquing and poke around in old barns and make beautiful arrangements all over my house. To be realistic though, I will probably never be as stylish as this blog…but […]
Despite the fact that I have piles of unfinished projects around, I am contemplating a new quilt. I have been collecting fabric in the color families of blue, purple, teal, and lime green and I have now found what I want to make with it-The Supersize Shoo Fly quilt by Malka Dubrawsky from American Patchwork […]
Hands in the Dirt, Head in the Clouds 